The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined AT&T $100m (£63m) after accusing it of unfairly limiting "unlimited" mobile data plans. The telco insists it has done nothing wrong.
The regulator said AT&T broke its Open Internet rules by deliberately slowing subscribers' download speeds when they went over their 3GB to …

AT&T has taken its four-year campaign to avoid liability for throttling its "unlimited" data plans to new heights by proposing that a $100m fine imposed last month be reduced to just $16,000.
In a filing leaked to Congress obsessive The Hill, the US telco giant argued that the fine levied by the Federal Communications …

Amazon is reaching out to developers in an effort to build a rival to voice assistant services like Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana.
The online retail giant has released APIs and a software development kit (SDK) in an effort to build up its new Alexa voice service, which is built into its Echo smart speaker. It has also …

A £100m pot of cash for managed service providers will form part of the Scottish government's next public sector-wide tech agreement.
A prior information notice on the Official Journal of the EU was distributed to suppliers for the replacement to the Scottish Procurement Framework, which is currently winding down.
"Scottish …

Services-based reseller Computacenter has bagged a £100m project to refresh and manage tens of thousands of PCs for the Post Office, in line with the customer’s aim to drag itself into the 21st century.
The four-year End User Computing Tower involves CC buying, configuring, installing and maintaining more than 30,000 devices …

Internet registry Afilias hopes to build a $100m (£62.3m) war chest by floating on the London Stock Exchange – just in time to spend the cash snapping up the rights to new dot-word domains.
The company will sell 30 percent of itself next month, ahead of a critical dot-word auction planned for 17 December.
Some 21 valuable new …

Google chair Eric Schmidt has gotten his second $100m dose of restricted stock units in less than three years.
The Chocolate Factory said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that Schmidt was getting the stock award along with a $6m cash bonus for the year next week.
The firm said the sizeable package was "in …

Cisco may have predicted tough times ahead, after sales recently fell sharply in China and it laid off 4,000 employees due to a growth slump, but the networking giant reckons that pumping cash into the so-called Internet of Things will help spur on recovery.
It has slapped $100m on the pile to invest in ultra-low-power embedded …

Three-year-old OpenStack startup Mirantis has scored $100m in venture-capital funding, we're told.
The series-B cash injection came from Intel Capital, Ericsson, and Sapphire Ventures (formerly SAP Ventures) and other investors.
Mirantis was founded in 2011, and (until now) had $20m in the bank from Valley sugar daddies. It …

Vodafone has said that it plans to add another 150 shops in Blighty and create 1,400 retail jobs in the next 12 months as part of a £100m expansion.
The cash for the expansion is coming out of the company's billion-pound investment pot, which is also funding its aim to cover 98 per cent of the UK population by 2015 with 2G, 3G …

Tech titans that grew fat off the public sector purse should take note that IT contracts worth £100m and over are to become a thing of yesteryear - according to the government.
This is one of a number of "red lines" that the Cabinet Office published today, in new regulations that are designed to loosen the grip that hefty …

Klout, the startup that claims to be able to measure users' influence on social media sites, has just gained a whole lot more influence of its own – at least $100m worth.
Re/Code reports that Klout has been acquired by "social customer experience" company Lithium Technologies in a cash-and-stock deal valued "in the low nine …

Lenovo has inked a patent deal which looks to expand the company's reach into the mobile computing world.
Wireless intellectual property broker Unwired Planet said it will take $100m in cash from the Chinese electronics giant in exchange for about 2,500 "issued and pending US and foreign patents" covering wireless broadband and …

IBM is planning to invest $100m and 10 years on getting Africa hooked on its Watson supercomputer system.
Big Blue said that it wants to use the system in "Project Lucy", named after the earliest known human ancestor, to help the continent in key areas like healthcare, education, sanitation and agriculture.
"In the last decade …

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A new UK TV platform dubbed Freeview Connect has been officially announced after many months of rumour within the industry.
It will provide catch-up and other on-demand services for terrestrial UK broadcasters – much as YouView does today. The move leaves Freeview shareholder Sky, which has its own telly platform, out in the …

Analysis
The BBC last week stood by its dismissal of former technology chief John Linwood over the failed £100m digital media initiative.
The Corporation was judged to have broken the law in dismissing Linwood and reading the tribunal’s findings makes the BBC's defence difficult to accept.
According to the BBC, the tribunal “ …

South Korean leviathan Samsung has ring-fenced $100m to snap up early startups in IT security, mobile tech and remote computing.
The globe-spanning chaebol has already set aside a billion dollars for its Samsung Ventures America Fund subsidiary, which will be run along with the $100m "Catalyst Fund" at the new Samsung Strategy …

Humanity's quest to discover intelligent aliens resident in other star systems has received a big boost from well-known Russian biz overlord Yuri Milner, who has splashed $100m on the search with the endorsement of famous boffin Stephen Hawking.
A project he calls Breakthrough Listen will give SETI researchers access to the …

HP has coughed up $100m (£65m) to settle its legal dispute with a Dutch pension fund over its massive $8.8bn (£5.6bn) Autonomy write-down.
HP confirmed today that it has entered into a settlement agreement with PGGM Vermogensbeheer, the lead plaintiff in the securities class action arising from the impairment charge taken by HP …

Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk says a recent negative review of his company's Model S electric car by The New York Times may have cost his company as much as $100m.
"It probably affected us to the tune of tens of millions if not maybe on the order of $100m, so it's not trivial," Musk said in an interview with Bloomberg TV's …

IT technical and managed services provider Imtech is warning of a financial writedown of at least €100m due to "possible irregularities" at its Polish sub.
The Netherlands-based group, which also has electrical and mechanical service units in addition to its ICT arm, said it had "ordered a forensic investigation" of the …

The US government will sink $100m (£63.5m) into research and development of White Space technology over the next five years.
And the majority of the cash will come from everyone's favourite mad-professor tech clearing-house DARPA.
The first $23m will come direct from the White House, and will be awarded in the next couple of …

Lumbering tech distributor Ingram Micro is banking on the biggest restructure in its European history to make the biz leaner and meaner, regional president Gerhard Schultz has revealed.
Details of the global transformation plan designed to slash annual overheads by $100m a year are emerging, and as revealed yesterday will …

Three South Korean credit card firms which are thought to have exposed the personal data of 20 million customers have been forced to suspend all new business for three months in a blow which could cost them nearly $100 million.
Korean regulator the Financial Services Commission (FSC) said the firms were not allowed to sign up …

Google will axe the website widget Meebo Bar just one year after buying the company that built it.
The advertising giant said it scrapped the tool to focus on its Google+ plugins.
Google bought Meebo on 4 June reportedly for $100m, before proceeding to strip away much of its functionality.
It started as an instant-messaging …

Wi-Fi signal booster biz Ruckus Wireless has set in motion a $100m stock market debut, and hopes to be listed early next year.
The company requested the stock symbol RKUS but didn't specify how many shares will be sold nor which exchange will host the listing - the fields are blank in the initial public offering paperwork filed …

The BBC's new director general Tony Hall says staff should have spoken up about the catastrophic Digital Media Initiative (DMI).
The utopian media storage project cost the BBC almost £100m since 2010 (and some £81m before then) before it was formally abandoned in May, with the corporation opting to use off-the-shelf software …

Parents whose credit cards took a hammering after their kids went on iTunes spending sprees are in line for some compensation from Apple - in a lawsuit settlement that could cost the fruity biz $100m.
Parents were horrified to receive huge bills from their iTunes accounts for items such as virtual vegetables for iPad games. A …

The UK's Department for Transport – with £20m of R&D taxpayer money on the table (the first tranche of a total £100m) – has published a code of conduct for driverless car testing.
Whitehall hopes to push British motor makers ahead of the game in getting driverless cars on the road, the DfT said.
The code follows on from a …

A Chinese businessman has pleaded guilty to copyright infringement on an epic scale after helping to crack and sell pirated high-end software worth in excess of $US100m over a three year period.
Xiang Li of Chengdu in China’s south-western Sichuan province, disputed the value of the software he sold but pleaded guilty to …

Seemingly flush with cash, the government is pouring an extra £40m into its SME broadband voucher scheme, despite the pitiful take up of the existing £100m initiative to date.
Plans to extend the scheme until March 2016, and to more cities, were outlined in the Treasury's 2014 National Infrastructure plan.
"Vouchers will be …

It seems ex-HP chairman Ray Lane is as good at picking tax shelters as software companies, since the IRS now says he owes them $100m in unpaid taxes from an investment scheme that has been ruled illegal.
Papers filed in the Washington tax court show claim Lane, who stepped down from HP in April in the wake of the botched …

Australia has reduced the amount of money it pays for Microsoft products by AU$100m (£66m, $103m), according to the nation's Chief Technology Officer John Sheridan.
Speaking yesterday at the Kickstart conference, Sheridan explained that consolidating contracts from 42 to one and working through a single reseller has enabled the …

The coalition's election pledge to cap IT contracts at £100m will become official policy from next month.
A procurement policy notice released by the Cabinet Office sets 1 April as the deadline when the cap will come into force for central government departments, their agencies and non-departmental public bodies.
The £100m …

Supercomputer storage supplier DataDirect Network is setting up a $100m exascale computing lab.
The goal is to hit one quintillion floating-point operations per second, and DDN hopes this mind-boggling level of number-crunching will be reached by 2018. The company is going to direct its funds to:
Accelerating IO with a new file …

Prime Minister David Cameron is to announce plans for the NHS to create a massive database of patients' DNA, which experts have advised could lead to massive health benefits and advances in medical technology. However the creation of such a database has obvious and far reaching privacy implications.
In an attempt to address such …

The government's much-delayed £2bn Network Services contract has finally gone live after 12 months of blood, sweat, tears and therapy on the part of suppliers.
The framework is comprised of 61 suppliers, according to Innopsis, the representative body for public services network companies. Of those, 30 per cent are SMEs, the …

Northgate Managed Services (NMS) is up for sale and investment banking biz Jefferies International is doing the hawking, claim sources close to the company.
"Northgate Managed Services is up for sale, the reality is that the business has been offered to a number of firms," said a person familiar with the matter.
It is …

A massive HP data centre in Colorado Springs is in danger of being destroyed by a wildfire raging near by.
The data centre, located alongside a HP laboratory and office on Rockrimmon Boulevard in Colorado Springs, is in the mandatory evacuation area (PDF) for the fire, although the fire hasn't reached that street yet.
"The …

GitHub has received a $250m infusion of venture-capital cash that values the code-sharing website at $2bn.
That means it's worth more than ZenDesk ($1.78bn), slightly less than the New York Times ($2.17bn), and more than stricken Yelp ($1.87bn).
The San Francisco-based upstart said its Series-B funding round was led by VC …

The UK Cabinet Office says as much as £100m of public-sector IT contracts are now up for grabs for the 458 cloud services providers approved by Whitehall.
All the government needs to do now is teach IT buyers in the public sector how to actually use the newly launched UK.gov G-Cloud 2 CloudStore, Blighty's online procurement …

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The Chancellor of Exchequer George Osborne confirmed today exactly which cities in the UK will get their hands on a cash pile set aside to speed up broadband.
Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, London, Manchester and Newcastle will be dubbed "super-connected cities" by the government at least, …

Adapt, the venture cap-backed UK managed service provider, is touting ambitions to build a £100m operation inside four years and has taken a small step toward that goal by stumping up £13m for infrastructure outsourcing firm eLINIA.
Lyceum Capital, pumped £30m on London-based Adapt in September last year and the company has …

Cyber security outfit Darktrace, which is backed by billionaire superyacht owner Mike Lynch, has raised yet more cash, this time drumming up the princely sum of $22.5m (£14.4m).
Darktrace uses machine learning and mathematics to detect early-stage cyber threats. The biz was founded by former members of the intelligence …

Google is set to acquire website widget maker Meebo for a reported price tag of $100m (£64.8m) in a clear move to drum up interest in Google+, the ad giant's flagging social network.
Meebo confirmed the planned takeover in a blog post on Sunday. The cloud-based upstart makes a button bar that, among other things, appears on …

Euro managed services outfit Claranet has used some of its£100m + war chest to dip into the Brit tech market, devouring minnows Linux IT and and Biz Continuity/ DR specialist Techgate.
The London headquartered firm that has tentacles in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain, renegotiated its finances with …

Cupcake and kitten-laden photo site Pinterest has bagged $100m in funding from a bunch of investors led by Japanese online retailer Rakuten.
Rakuten said today that it was heading up the multimillion-dollar handout with help from existing Pinterest investors Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners and FirstMark Capital as …

Code-sharing website GitHub is pursuing a new round of venture capital based on a US$2bn (£1.26bn) valuation.
Bloomberg cited sources familiar with the matter in reporting that GitHub is in the middle of a series-b funding push to raise US$200m in capital.
That dosh would give investors a 10 per cent stake in the company under …

Analysis
Tesco is rumoured to be selling off Tesco Mobile, its mobile phone network. The move comes as no surprise, with the company hauling back to its core businesses after dismal results, recently writing down assets to post a loss of £6.4bn.
Figures given for the value of the business sit at about £700m. This is on the basis of Tesco …